# Can the President Eliminate Capital Gains Taxes On His Own? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 22, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-president-eliminate-capital-gains-taxes-on-his-own/625971 "2012-06-22T18:35:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 27
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-president-eliminate-capital-gains-taxes-on-his-own/625971/27 "2012-06-22T22:15:34Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > The constitution gives the authority to enact laws to Congress. So, in order to defend the Constitution, he needs to defer to Congress on legislation. > > **Bricker** : It would be nice if you’d just participate in this thread instead of going for the silly gotcha. For the moment, I just want to see where the discussion goes. My opinions sometimes change as a result of reading reasoning here. I started out thinking that the only difference between my hypo and the immigration business was the very dangerous, “Well, we like these results but don’t like those,” which is, in my view, a really poor baseline principle. But then someone pointed out that one law’s text actually mentions discretionary enforcement and the other’s does not. To me, that’s a much more solid base upon which to rest a distinction. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-president-eliminate-capital-gains-taxes-on-his-own/625971)._